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June 2013

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July 2012

January 2012

Dear Wilsede Participants and Wilsede Friends

The Wilsede Experiment “Modern Trends in Human Leukemia” started Midsummer night 1973, for three long days and nights in the 350 years old farmhouse “De Emhof”.Those who have joined the bienal horse-drawn expedition to Wilsede inthe inner Reaches of the Lümeburger Heide south of Hamburg, have enjoyed stimulating and informal Discussions. The rustic “De Emmhof” has provided a convival setting formany lively, and at times provocativ, debates.

The educational component of Wilsede enjoyed both – Students and golden oldies alike -isnot to be underestimated, in an increasingly specialised, technical and rapidly developing research arena it serves a vital function.The Wilsede meetings have proved the ideal forum for practising medical doctors and basic scientist to meet together and discuss new innovations from molecular biology to treatment strategies to help leukemic and cancer Patients.We selected for historical and still actuell informations 10% of the Wilsede publications in this Internet File“Modern Trends in Human Leukemia” .

MOLECULARBIOLOGY

October 2011

The Maximow Award is taking place within the framework of the German-Russian Year of Education, Science and Innovation 2011/2012. Under the title "Development of Stem Cell Transplantation: a Debate", it is kindly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

It is a special cooperation project designed by the Transplant Centers of Hamburg and St. Petersburg and the journal Cellular Therapy and Transplantation (CTT, www.ctt-journal.com). Join the competition here on October 1st!

Alexander Maximov in Wilsede

A few words about my last work, which I called " Alexander Maximov's world". I could think that many of you had to learn or to study his experiments and results, when they were students. Well, I am not competent enough to give a valuation of his work or meaning in histology. But the few things I read about his work and life gave me a great deal of respect and admiration. Specially how he drew and painted the results of his experiments in such a filligran and precise way. Amongst scientists, often the work of a colleague is not always considered with great admiration rather more with a feeling of respect or competition. So, when I put up some kind of a monument for Alexander Maximov, it is the painters admiration for a scientist, who probably drew much better than I ever would do in histology.

Now to my work: There is the real and spiritual world of Alexander Maximov. The polarisation of the idea is seen on the right side which shows the three stations in his life.

First: St. Petersburg, where he worked at the Military Medical Academy for some years.

Second: In Berlin, the Charite Hospital, where he worked like his famous colleagues Arinkin and Botkin before. And last station of his life was the University of Chicago where he had to emigrate with heavy heart after october revolution. On the left side you see two blood pictures which have been drawn by Alexander Maximov.

Third: The upper picture which looks like a Super Nova is a cell of a mouse fibroplast which Alexander Maximov in his time could not see like this, as the electronic microscope wasn't invented then. This is the contemporary level of this work together with the circled Wilsede motif over the tower.

If you look closer and I could help everybody with my magnifying glass, you discover that Maximov's two blood pictures are drawn in the silhouette of the Emhof (up side down) and the Granary. The Center shows the portrait of Alexander Maximov about the time as a young man in St. Petersburg and it shows close to his heart the entrance to his laboratory in the Military Academy. To end now, I sum up the key idea may be called 5 seconds of inspiration and five weeks of rather hard work. Alexander Maximov as a tower surrounded by the real buildings St. Petersburg, Berlin and Chicago and on the other hand surrounded by his spiritual buildings, the blood pictures in the silhouette of Wilsedes granary and the Emhof. So I thank you for accompanying my explanations of Alexander Maximov from St. Petersburg to us here in Wilsede.

1973 - Wilsede Experiment started

An Introduction by Rolf Neth:
Nearly every month there are workshops, conferences or congresses devoted to the problems of human leukemia, for our knowledge is quite limited. In large measure, these conferences have been concerned with Special aspects of leukemia. In this workshop we have brought together scientists from different research areas in human leukemia. Therefore the title "Modern Trends in Human Leukemia does not only apply to the discussion of the importance of molecular biology, but also includes the 100 year old history of the leukemic cell as the basis of biological and irnmunological aspects in human leukemia. Modern trends in human leukemia need to be discussed based on the past, present and possible future information gathered from all different, but related topics.
The idea to bring together highly qualified biochemists, medical doctors, and virologists to learn, like students, about each other's fields has been very unusual. But to understand human leukemia, the virologists and biochemists have to learn more about the properties of the human blood cell, and the medical doctors have to learn where and how leukemic misinformation can influence the normal regulation of the molecular control mechanism in a blood cell. To start such a workshop, therefore, was to start an experiment. In this experiment, the hope was that these scientists would learn about each other's research fields and also teach others about their own specialized fields as well. The final aim was that those in the workshop would discuss the whole problem of human leukemia, and cooperative research programs among the different specialized groups would be stimulated.
We tried the experiment for three long days and nights in a 350 year old farmhouse. I would like to thank all people who made this possible. Our hope is now that you can be stimulated and encouraged to try similar experiments

Via Wolga to Russia

1990 A door is open

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Friends
In 1988, after the last Wilsede meeting, Elena Frolova and her friends had the marvelous idea of organizing a Volga Wilsede meeting. Today, I am very pleased that this idea became true. Every day, we dream of freedom and peace. A small part of this dream has today come into our hands.
Everybody here has done his best to come together for good science and in friendship. I am sure that this Volga Wilsede meeting and the Neva Wilsede Meeting will become part of the international tradition of good science In a peaceful human atmosphere. For us this door IS open: let us go through.
Moscow, 13 June 1990 Rolf Neth

"The death of any child is a tragedy; a promise of life stolen. A child suffering from and then dying of cancer seems hideously cruel. There was a time in Europe when the loss of an infant or childwas commonplace due to endemic infections or malnutrition. This still happens, disgracefully so, on a prodigious scale in less developed regions of the planet."

‘Typing the Leukaemic Cells’ by Susan Macfarlane.

"The narratives are illustrated with evocative paintings on childhood leukaemia by a remarkable artist, Susan Macfarlane. Sadly, Susan died in 2002 and we are grateful to her sons, Euan and Angus Mackay, for their permission to reproduce some of her extraordinary paintings here, all of which derive from the exhibition ‘Living with Leukaemia’, commissioned by Dr. Geoffrey Farrer-Brown.

Modern Trends in Human Leukemia

1973 we started in Wilsede Modern Trends in Human Leukemia. Rüdiger Hehlmann, who was with us since 1973 in Wilsede, had the idea to join IACRL, the Wilsede Meetings,Acute-Leukemias, Leukemia-Net and others for "sciencetransfer with social awareness" to help in Leukemia diagnosis and therapy worldwide. For this, we started the Internet Portal www.humanleukemia.com

To keep this Idea alive we need the help of our scientific friends arround the world.

Aids and Prevention

In January 1985 I got a letter from Dr. Koch (read the original - and the answer from Dr. Neth) He informed me about HTLV III infections around Karlsborg. I agreed that we have to prevent by education and bloodtest .

1990 Robert Gallo was on the Volga Wilsede Meeting in an Interview critical optimistic for a vaccination. In 2010 40.Millons need education and a safe haver for testing, hope for a therapy and vaccination.

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nonindustrialized Nations need education and a “Safe Haven” for testing and 40. Milliones waiting for a therapy and hope for Vaccination

January 2011

August 2010

After a History of 40 years Wilsede Meeting, the Wilsede Club is a world wide network of more the 2000 Wilsede Participants and Wilsede Friends. In the spirit of Pastor Bode we need support for keeping Wilsede the delightful and unspoilt place were students and outstanding scientist enjoyed together nature lore and science. In this restless World www.science-connections.com could help the younger scientists and students to find a bridge to live to see the science.
Rolf Neth

Memories in and around Wilsede

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) and Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) recognised that light is also an electromagnetic wave movment in space. Their inspiration was not hope of profit, but rather the dream of a new freedom, this hope we share. For this to be successful in the Wilsede Portal http://www.Science-Connections.com we look for help - in terms of both personal, academic information and, at a modest level, financially.

November 2009

October 2009

Evolution of Peace

Illustration made by Immanuel Nobel on how ships are blasted with mines, here being demonstrated in his presence and that of the Tsar of Russia.

In his last will, signed on November 27, 1895, we find the well-known prize formulation "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the aboliton or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." Alfred Nobel promptly informed Bertha von Suttner of his decision, and she expressed her delight: "Whether I am around then or not does not matter; what we have given, you and I, is going to live on."

Also in 1892 she promised Alfred Nobel to keep him informed on the progress of the peace movement and, if possible, to convince him of its effectiveness. No doubt she felt that she was beginning to succeed when she received a letter from him in January of 1893, telling her about a peace prize he hoped to found, one which, after his death in 1896, his will showed he had indeed established

Perhaps the most famous Solvay conference was the October 1927, where the world's most notable physicists met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory.

The leading figures were Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Einstein, disenchanted with Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle," remarked "God does not play dice." Bohr replied, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do."

Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners, including Marie Curie, who alone among them, had won Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines.